[KR: Given all of the stories earlier in the year about whether Obama, a second-generation immigrant, was black enough to get African American support, it is perhaps surprising and ironic that he is losing the immigrant vote to Hillary Clinton. Below are links to news articles and opeds trying to make sense of why Obama is heavily losing among Latino and Asian American voters, with potential explanations ranging from name-recognition advantage, to better outreach by Clinton, to intergroup prejudice].
“Asians were a surprise,” said Bruce Cain, director of the University of California’s Washington Center. “It’s the first (presidential) election we have seen where Asian voters were a big factor. They are about 8 percent of the Democratic electorate…. The two major immigrant groups voted for Clinton as opposed to the candidate who has the immigrant background.”